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On your left, it's a clean coral reef, and on your right is a nearly dead coral reef that has a very intense fish farming operation in the waters there.
And the "Washington Post" reported that last year, nearly 1,000 people were fatally wounded by on-duty police officers.
The news continues to give us a picture where men outnumber women in nearly all occupational categories, except two: students and homemakers.
Thirty-six years ago at nearly this moment, a 19-year-old boy awoke from a coma to ask a nurse a question, but the nurse was already there with an answer.
But today we have a thousand college student advocates who are working to connect nearly 9,000 patients and their families with the resources that they need to be healthy.
But the truth is I've spent every waking minute nearly since then chasing that vision.
From 25 clubs, we became hundreds, then thousands, until we were nearly a quarter of a million kids in 7,000 clubs right across the country.
It can't be attributed to a decline in the murder rate, because the murder rate has not declined nearly so steeply as the red line on that graph has gone down.
This was done nearly four years ago.
Chinese manufacturers now sell thousands of nearly identical devices on the Internet.
All together, they achieved these results: increased the number of people on anti-retrovirals, life-saving anti-AIDS drugs; nearly halved deaths from malaria; vaccinated so many that 5.4 million lives will be saved.
It turns out, because we're recording nearly at the speed of light, we have strange effects, and Einstein would have loved to see this picture.
Slavery exists everywhere, nearly, in the world, and yet it is illegal everywhere in the world.
With my setup, it would be nearly impossible to fail.
Nearly every apartment in and around my grandmother's place now has an air conditioner.
Now this approach makes possible things like combing through all available data from very different sources, identifying key relationships and putting them in one place, something that's been nearly impossible to do before.
What might explain the difference in the experience of these two nearly identical men?
The World Health Organization estimates that there are nearly four to five hundred million people living on our tiny planet who are affected by a mental illness.
It isn't surprising, then, that if you should speak to anyone affected by a mental illness, the chances are that you will hear stories of hidden suffering, shame and discrimination in nearly every sector of their lives.
We've invested about 20 million dollars in 20 different enterprises, and have, in so doing, created nearly 20,000 jobs, and delivered tens of millions of services to people who otherwise would not be able to afford them.
These things aren't joyful for just a few people; they're joyful for nearly everyone.
Nearly 300,000 homes were lost.
Of course, nearly every person we initiated the conversation with knew someone that had anxiety, depression or thoughts of suicide or had suicided.
So we need to acknowledge that despite the dubious statistics, despite the fact that 84 percent of people in Britain feel politics is broken, despite the fact that when I was in Iraq, we did an opinion poll in 2003 and asked people what political systems they preferred, and the answer came back that seven percent wanted the United States, five percent wanted France, three percent wanted Britain, and nearly 40 percent wanted Dubai, which is, after all, not a democratic state at all but a relatively prosperous minor monarchy, democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.
In this case, this is nearly 30,000 U.S. respondents, and we find the same pattern.
When I first started to work in Romania nearly 20 years ago, there were 200,000 children living in institutions, and more entering every day.
When I was nearly done with my PhD, I got bitten by that entrepreneurial bug.
Here is an example from an op-ed on Thanksgiving, in the Boston Globe a couple of years ago, where the writer wrote, "The Indian life was a difficult one, but there were no employment problems, community harmony was strong, substance abuse unknown, crime nearly non-existent, what warfare there was between tribes was largely ritualistic and seldom resulted in indiscriminate or wholesale slaughter."
And we had to deal with images that were so realistic it was nearly difficult to tell if they were real at all.
The ice is always moving, breaking up, drifting around, refreezing, so the scenery that I saw for nearly 3 months was unique to me.
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